Cloud group companies free of Redmond's compliance cops for 2 years in return for ditching EC antitrust complaint
Part of Microsoft's settlement with a bunch of cloud providers in Europe to make an antitrust complaint disappear is a two-year moratorium on software audits, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
A temporary halt on audits makes the settlement more appealing, avoiding a knock on the door by Microsoft's software licensing compliance cops. It will also make its exclusion all the more galling for, which have repeatedly blasted Microsoft over licensing terms that make it costlier to run some of its popular software anywhere but Azure.
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